The sexually perverted may advocate and plead for same sex but our plural society is not accepting it. A classic example of this fact came to light in Uttar Pradesh on August 24 when two young men, aged 20 and 22, reached a village temple and requested the priest to perform rituals for their marriage. They were residents of the neighbouring village. Some religious people near the temple saw them and gauged suspicion. They talked to the priest and caught the youth. Both of them confessed tha...

India’s first Islamic Bank is going to function in Kochi, Kerala by the next year with active involvement of the state government. The bank’s registration formalities are being fulfilled on a war footing. Kerala Industries Department Corporation (KSIDC), which is the designated agency for the formation of the bank, actively involved in the new initiative and a high level meeting held at Kozhikode on August 12 approved a project report prepared by Ernst & Young. KSIDC wil...

The Supreme Court of India granted bail to Hyderabad-based Maulana Naseeruddin who had been languishing in Gujarat’s Sabarmati jail for the last six years on unproven charges. The bail appeal of Maulana Naseeruddin was pending in the Supreme Court for the last seven months. When the hearing of the case started, Kamini Jaiswal, the Advocate of Maulana, presented his case in court consisting of Justices Markandeya Katju and Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly. Adv. Jaiswal said the Gujarat...

The death of Nagaraj Jambagi, the main accused in the Hubli court bomb blast and Singanahalli bomb-planting cases at KIMS hospital in Hubli, left several questions unanswered. Jambagi who was facing trial in several cases of murder, bomb blast, kidnap and extortion, was assaulted to death by none other than his accomplices Basavaraj Roogi and Basavaraj Diggi in Bagalkot jail on July 18 this year. Roogi is from Bagalkot and is alleged to have been associated with Jambagi in bomb blast cases, w...

Dr. Asad Ali Khurshid, Senior Lecturer of Persian at Aligarh Muslim University has been nominated for President’s Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of Persian language and literature. This Award is given by the President to the young scholars of less than 40 years. Dr. Asad is the first such young scholar in the Department of Persian who is to receive the prestigious award. Dr. Khurshid’s two books, Bastanul Ikram and Ahd-e-Khaljian-e-Hind Ki Farsi M...